Posts by Bob Vistakin

New York Cops use Google Maps

Keystone Cops used Apple Maps

Keep on polishing the Win8 turd till it rubs away to nothing

Now that's a policy I'll certainly raise my glass to.

"making the social network an ever-present companion for people with extremely low IQs"

FTFY

What a good idea

Samsung had when they showed it first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3E7fUynrZU

Its them Wound corners

Siri, can you demonstrate to us what we mean when we tell others we can't have them stealing our inventions please?

Why all this fuss?

It's not on an iPhone so clearly no one has a use for it.

Their quaint little legacy phones continue to excite and amaze.

It's the superior Apple user experience, stupid. Nanny says so.

Cupertino, start your photocopiers

This is the second generation of tech they failed to innovate from Samsung. Guess the first generation such as NFC, wireless charging, proper screen sizes etc they are still innovating from the first S3 will be here any year now.

But what shape are its corners?

I can't wait for Apple to innovate a large, black rectangular device for watching moving pictures with sound on. It's what the human race has been waiting for all these years, and when they do finally think different and bring such a stunningly original genius invention to market, it's only right and proper they go round suing everyone else who copied their idea over the last 20 years.

More to the point, which set of bastards are pushing Nokia this way?

Some evil losers are clearly pulling their strings - you can smell their desperation.

I just can't think who though. And since Nokia lost, this mysterious puppeteer can claim all ignorance, natch.

Making Windows 8 look like Windows 7 isn't a climbdown?

Wow - I thought Apple had monopolized the reality distortion field.

Still with the tincy-wincy liddle screen?

I find it quite amusing watching them squirm around in the corner they've painted themselves into with this. One the one hand (ho ho) there is the famous "one size fits all so why change?" approach, and on the other there's the "gosh, the world really does want a bigger form factor - look at Samsungs' sales" but they can't because their software is totally unprepared for fragmentation, unlike a certain well known competitors who has been dealing with it for so long it has perfected it.

And no, I don't mean just adding another row of icons to a homescreen and letterboxing all the existing apps when needed.

Rats, sinking ship, mountains of unsold iPhones...

Think different

"Another slap in Cupertino's face"

And it's a face decent folk everywhere just never tire of slapping.

"Copy" legacy phones?

Apples quaint miniature toys have been frozen in time since 2007 - what kind of ass-backwards reasoning is this?

You're haggling it wrong

I can hear the laughter all the way from South Korea :-)

Does it download Chrome any faster?

Surely that's the one and only time users get to see IE these days, after buying a system with Windows pre-installed or installing it themselves.

Microsofts "customers" get Ballmered again

Having stuffed them on phones, tablets and their comedy new desktop OS, destroying their faith in their cloud offering is an essential step in the slow car crash suicide that is 2013: Microsofts year of hell.

You're hoarding it wrong

Quite proud of that one!

For crying out loud! How many times????

This is a whole different kind of incompetence for which a word has not yet been invented. Seriously - this is the same me-too comedy "Cloud" offering from Microsoft which fell over last time because it didn't know about leap years? So hows that "lessons learned" thing coming on then?

Google glass is innovative. Really, genuinely innovative.

No effing wonder the best Microsoft can do is just look on green with envy, whilst sniping childish jealous taunts. The last innovative thing to come from them was their CEO's comedy furniture rearrangement antics.

I can hear the photocopiers in Cupertino starting up, too.

I thought he just took out a superinjunction against those he disliked?

Then again, how would anyone know?

Microsoft are in the mobile phone business?

Well I never. Next you'll be saying they have a search engine of their own, rather than merely chucking up some script kiddie style wrapper round Googles.

Fallapartgate still an issue?

They keyboard that is, not this particular vendor.

Well, that's one way to spin what Microsoft did to Nokia

"And of course, Microsoft itself might think it best to pick up the pieces of its wounded partner"

Wounded having been raped sideways by, err, Microsoft to make it so.

You're updating it wrong

Users are so stupid. Why on earth can't they use Apple products properly?

Ditching the Twitter integration was a smart move

It's great they did this, but not so great it wasn't actually their choice. Who really needs to know what I think of the pop factor contestants in order to do business with me? Anyway, I reckon Linked In is the closest thing we'll get to a usable global people directory - ultimately the business "phone book" for the world. Obviously there only needs to be one, so it's no wonder it's doing so well and management want to tread carefully before ruining things the way Facebook did.